Museum of Modern Art

News about Museum of Modern Art, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 19, 2015

Museum of Modern Art store sells glass Sunrise carafes from Mist-o. MORE

Feb. 14, 2015

Francis X Clines Editorial Notebook describes experience of visiting Museum of Modern Art at midnight to see cutout works by Henri Matisse during exhibit's 55-hour closing; says it is testament to Matisse's power as an artist that so many are willing to visit museum during wee hours to see his work, and that late hour lends works an alluring, hallucinatory quality. MORE

Feb. 8, 2015

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson's latest documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution fills in little-known details of Black Panther Party history; film will have New York premiere as part of Documentary Fortnight series at the Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Feb. 1, 2015

Bjork's latest album Vulnicura captures emotional turmoil of ending 13-year relationship with artist Matthew Barney; release is meant to coincide with her upcoming retrospective at Museum of Modern Art and world tour. MORE

Jan. 9, 2015

Karen Rosenberg reviews exhibition Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection, 1909-1949 at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Jan. 2, 2015

Karen Rosenberg reviews exhibition Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Dec. 17, 2014

Museum of Modern Art will honor the Great Migration--flight of six million black southerners to points north from 1915 onward--by reuniting Jacob Lawrence's famous paintings of movement in 2015; exhibit, fist time paintings have been shown at MoMA since 1994, is part of ambitious project to bring fresh perspectives on legacy of migration through new works commissioned from artists inspired by Lawrence. MORE

Dec. 12, 2014

Roberta Smith reviews group exhibit The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Dec. 6, 2014

Mike Hale Critic's Notebook notes that, by coincidence, 1973 Robert Altman film The Long Goodbye will be screening at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Museum of Modern Art and Film Forum within stretch of 18 days. MORE

Nov. 14, 2014

Holland Cotter reviews works by American artist Elaine Sturtevant at the Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Nov. 13, 2014

Celebrities attend party for Louis Vuitton bag collection Celebrating Monogram at the Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Oct. 26, 2014

Museum of Modern Art exhibit Making Music Modern: Design for Eye and Ear features connections between music and design, part of museum's ongoing focus on sound and art. MORE

Oct. 26, 2014

Museum of Modern Art presents sampling of 3-D movies as part of its series To Save and Project, as well as release of Jean-Luc Godard's latest film Goodbye to Language 3D. MORE

Oct. 10, 2014

Holland Cotter reviews exhibition of paintings by Henri Matisse at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Oct. 3, 2014

Roberta Smith reviews exhibition Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Sep. 21, 2014

Planned Museum of Modern Art exhibit called 100 Years in Post-Production: Resurrecting a Lost Landmark of Black Film History will showcase excerpts and still frames from 1913 unfinished feature film that curators say is earliest surviving movie with a black cast; footage is rare visual depiction of middle-class black characters from era when lynchings and stereotyped black images were commonplace. MORE

Sep. 18, 2014

Party at Museum of Modern Art for season 2 premiere of PBS series Finding Your Roots, which uncovers lineage secrets of notable people, holds some big reveals for attending guests. MORE

Aug. 15, 2014

Ken Johnson reviews The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec show, featuring lithographs and other printed works of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Aug. 14, 2014

Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and Museum of Modern Art, which holds Warhol's film archives, are working together on project to digitize the materials, vast undertaking that curators and historians hope will, for first time, put Warhol's film work on par with his other work; project will be MoMAs largest effort to digitize work of single artist in its collection. MORE

Aug. 1, 2014

Roberta Smith reviews exhibit Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Jul. 22, 2014

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim reviews performances by New Juilliard Ensemble, featuring premieres of works by Roberto Sierra and Errollyn Wallen, as part of Summergarden concert series at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Jul. 15, 2014

The Museum of Modern Art has picked a Swiss art history professor to be its new curator for architecture. MORE

Jul. 13, 2014

Workspace column; Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, discusses her office. MORE

Jul. 8, 2014

Zachary Woolfe reviews performance by New Juilliard Ensemble at Museum of Modern Art as part of Summergarden concert series. MORE

Jul. 4, 2014

Ken Johnson reviews Museum of Modern Art exhibition Sites of Reason: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions. MORE

May. 31, 2014

Zachary Woolfe reviews Beyond Recall, installment of New York Philharmonic's new music series Contact!, at the Museum of Modern Art; performance is part of NY Phil Biennial. MORE

May. 16, 2014

Roberta Smith reviews survey of works by Brazilian artist Lygia Clark at the Museum of Modern Art. MORE

May. 15, 2014

Museum of Modern Art's annual garden party honors the museum's patrons. MORE

Apr. 24, 2014

Op-Ed article by journalist John Freeman Gill holds Museum of Modern Art's pledge to save facade of Folk Art Museum, building it has purchased and intends to tear down, will do little to preserve life or legacy of building; notes comparison to attempted preservation of facade of Laing Stores building in 1970s, incident that ended in theft and, ultimately, forgetfulness; says building, once torn down, ceases to be what it once was, and that a fragment cannot be compared with the whole. MORE

Apr. 21, 2014

Museum of Modern Art's latest expansion on site of former American Folk Art Museum has sharpened complaints from art critics, artists and patrons about Glenn D Lowry, museum's director; detractors decry plans to demolish nearby museum and personally blame Lowry for museum's cold and corporate image, saying that MOMA has grown too fast and is losing its soul as it pursues more and more visitors. MORE

Apr. 18, 2014

Holland Cotter reviews exhibit of works by Sigmar Polke at the Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Apr. 16, 2014

Museum of Modern Art's decision to tear down neighboring building that once housed Folk Art Museum has drawn condemnations from architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, who designed it; museum, responding to protests, has agreed to preserve building's facade, though it is unclear how it will be used. MORE

Apr. 16, 2014

Brian Seibert reviews collaboration between choreographer Simone Forti and composer Charlemagne Palestine at the Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Apr. 13, 2014

Marco Bellocchio, one of cinema's great poets of rebellion and escape, is subject of 18-film retrospective at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Apr. 12, 2014

Museum of Modern Art is about to begin controversial demolition of former American Folk Art Museum at 45 West 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan; MoMA plans to use former folk art space to expand its galleries, in project that includes renovation of museum's main building. MORE

Apr. 6, 2014

Darby English, art historian who specializes in African-American art history, joins Museum of Modern Art as consulting curator to help museum's painting and sculpture department chart 'a black direction.' MORE

Mar. 22, 2014

Holland Cotter reviews exhibit Jasper Johns: Regrets at the Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Mar. 21, 2014

Karen Rosenberg reviews Object Matter exhibit of works by conceptual photographer Robert Heinecken at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Mar. 14, 2014

Roberta Smith reviews Gauguin: Metamorphoses exhibition at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Mar. 10, 2014

Exhibit Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal, at the Museum of Modern Art, showcases much of Wright's preparatory work, including drawings, correspondence and scale models; pieces provide insight into his process. MORE

Feb. 13, 2014

David W Dunlap Building Blocks column on fate of facade of former American Folk Art Museum in Midtown Manhattan; Museum of Modern Art says it cannot save building as it expands its own institution, but is intent on saving 82-foot-high sculptural ensemble of 63 copper-bronze alloy panels from structure's front. MORE

Feb. 7, 2014

Roberta Smith reviews photography exhibit A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio at Museum of Modern Art. MORE

Feb. 5, 2014

Museum of Modern Art’s plan to allow greater access to its Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden is seen as step forward or backward, depending on perspective; some applaud opening up garden as more populist direction for institution while others say public access will destroy quiet oasis for bustle of city. MORE

Jan. 26, 2014

Photography curators are grappling with changing nature of the medium as digital technologies and ubiquitous cacophony of images make it harder to define what is and what is not a photograph; question is examined in International Center of Photography exhibit What Is a Photograph? and Museum of Modern Art exhibit A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio. MORE

Jan. 19, 2014

Long friendship between two celebrated architect duos--Billie Tsien and Tod Williams and Ricardo Scofidio and Liz Diller--is under stress after Scofidio and Diller recommended tearing down the former home of the American Folk Art Museum, which Tsien and Williams designed; proposal is part of the expansion for the Museum of Modern Art; industry experts say they cannot recall an instance when one set of architects took down another's celebrated building just a few years after it went up. MORE

Jan. 16, 2014

Lisa Cooley, young gallery owner, views the exhibition on gallerist Ileana Sonnabend at the Museum of Modern Art; reflects on how Sonnabend's career paved the way for other women in the field. MORE

Jan. 14, 2014

Michael Kimmelman laments news that, after review by architecture firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro, former American Folk Art Museum building on Manhattan's West 53rd Street will be demolished to accommodate Museum of Modern Art's expansion. MORE

Jan. 9, 2014

Museum of Modern Art unveils sweeping redesign of its Midtown building featuring retractable glass wall, new gallery space and the opening of its entire first floor, including sculpture garden, free to the public; reaffirms its intention to demolish the former home of American Folk Art Museum, its next-door neighbor. MORE

Jan. 4, 2014

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim observes that exhibit There Will Never Be Silence at the Museum of Modern Art examines the intersection of John Cage’s seminal music piece 4’33 with the work of contemporaneous visual artists. MORE

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